Ryan North Quotes

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

MP3's are perfect.

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything.

I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.

The culture of buying an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don't really understand that, they just hop onto Limewire, or find a BitTorrent, or even just go onto iTunes if they're going to pay for something. It's just right there, there's no searching about.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3.

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway 'cause then you feel more connected to the artist.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.